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Re: Heat vs cold

The Jeli's wrote:
> 
> >Okay, some of my plants are on my radiator.  Now, is too much heat from
> >underneath not good? My Homelomena (Homer) his tips are browning a bit.
> >And my Pink polka plants leaves are burning, I have her on the window sill
> >next to the radiator so I don't know if it's the heat or the cold draft.
> >BAAHH, WINTER!!!   I may have this reversed but I think it went like this:
> >A plant would rather be warm and wet then cold and wet? or Cold and dry
> >or......
> 
> They might be burning from too much heat, and it's probably way too
> dry there too.  Lack of humidity.  You're right, plants don't like to be
> wet when it's cold, they can take it much better when it's warm.  Is there
> any way you can increase the humidity in the area of the radiator?  I've
> heard that placing the plants on pebble and water filled trays (but not IN
> the water) helps raise the humidity.  Fortunately (or not?) we have the
> opposite problem in our house--this time of year we run our dehumidifier
> non-stop and it pulls a gallon of water a day out of the air, with plenty
> of humidity left over for the plants (and the water out of it is great for
> watering houseplants).
> 
> Cami
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I've seen devices just for this purpose in catalogs like Gardner's
Supply (800)863-1700. They have honeycomb structures, and you fill them
with water and set the plants on topy of the honeycomb, so there's a
good amount of water but the pots or containers aren't sitting IN water,
which would be bad news. If you want to try this out and see if it will
work, fill a cookie sheet with pebbles and fill with water so that the
same effect will be achieved, with the container sitting on the pebbles
but not in water. If that helps, you might want to invest in some
honeycomb things simply because they hold more water and don't need to
be filled as often.

If you want a big, expensive solution that will take care of your
problem forever, do what I did and have a whole house humidifier
installed on your furnace. It's a few hundred bucks, but my sinuses and
plants are thriving here in Colorado.

Dell
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